• Sleepless One@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    Yes. People remember traumatic events differently than they remember normal events. Instead of remembering an event in a narrative way where you consciously know what happened, trauma shuts off this narrative memory and is instead remembered by a person doing certain behaviors or reacting to certain stimuli. This is why repressed memories are a thing.

    The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an excellent book on the topic.